Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-01

the perishable body, be sure also 20 get d.
ploma from the skies 70 look after ths imner-
ishAble soul Let all Christian physicians
unite with ministers Of the Gospel in persuad-
ing good people that It Is not because God Is
against them that they sometimes feel do
pressed, but because OF their diseased body.
Another practical use OF this sub lect is for
the young The theory Is abroad that they
must first SOW their wild oats, and afterward
Michigan wheat. Let me break the delnsion.
Wild oats are generally sown In the liver,
and they can never be pulled up. They 20
preoccupy that organ that there is no room
for the tmplantation OF righteous croD-
You see aged men about us at 50 erect,
ngile, splendid, grand old men. How much
wild oats did they SOW between Is years and
S0l None, absolute none God does not
Tery often honor with old age those who
have in early life sacrificed swine on the
altar Of the bodily temple. Remember, o,
young man, that while in after life and after
years Of dissipation you may perhaps have
your heart changed, religion does not
change the liver Trembling and stag
gering along these streets to-day are
men, all bent and decayed and pre-
maturely old for the reason that they are
paying for liens they put upon their physical
estate before they were 30. By early dissipa-
tion they Put on their body a first mortgage,
and second mortgage, and third mort
now being foreclosed, and all that remains CT
their earthly estate the undertaken will
soon put out of sight. Many years ago,
in fulfillment Of my text, dart struck
through their liver, and it is there yet God
forgives, but outraged physical law never,
never, never. That has Sinai, but no Cal
vary. Solomon in my text knew what he
was talking about He had in early life
been a prohigate, and he rises up on his
-.
warning to all the centuries David, bad in
early life, but good in later life, cries out
with an agony Of earnestness: Remember
not the sins of my youth"
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name O..
squatter sovereignty to those who went Out
West and took possession of lands and held
them by right Of preoccupation. Let q
flock of sins settle on your heart before you
get to 25 years Of age, and they will in all
probability keep possession of it by an in
formal squatter sovereignty. II prom
Use to pay at the bank $500 six months
from date,n says the promissory note. 81
promise to pay my life thirty years from
date at the bank Of the grave" says every
infraction of the laws of your physical
being.
What Will mans body never COM
pletely recover from an early dissipation In
this world? Never How about the world
to comet Perhaps God will fix it up in the
resurrection body so that it will not have to
go limping through all eternity, but get the
liver thoroughly damaged and it will stay
damaged. Physicians call it cancer of the
liver, or hardening OF the liver, or cirrhosis
Of the liver, or inflammation Of the liver, or
fatty degeneration Of the liver, but Solomon
puts q II these pangs into one figure and says:
It'll the dart strike through his liver"
That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars has no idea that he is getting
for himself smoked liver. That young man
has no idea that he has by early dissipation
so depleted his energies that he will go into
the battle only half armed. Napoleon lost
Waterloo days before it was fought. Had he
attacked the English army before it was re-
enforced and taken it division by division,
he might have won the day, but he waited
until he had only 100, 700 men against 200, 600.
And here is a young man who, If he put all
his forces against the regiment of youthful
temptations in the strength of God he might
drive them back, but he is allowing them to
be reinforced by the whole army OF midllfe
temptations, and when all these combined
forces are massed against him and no Groucby
comes to help him, and Bluncher has come to
help his foes, what but immortal defeat can
await himl
Some years ago scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts Of the human body
| when healthy and different parts when dis
eased And what the world wants now is
some eloquent scientist to go through the
| country showing to our young people on
blazing canvas the drunkard's liver, the
idler's liver, the ibertine's liver, the gam
| bler's liver. Perhaps the spectacle might
| stop some young man before he comes to the
! same catastrophe, and the dart strike through
his own liver.
| NY hearer, this is the first sermon you have
heard on the gospel Of health, and it may be
the last you will ever hear ON that subject; and
/ charge you, in the name of God and Christ,
and usefulness and eternal destiny, take bet
ter care of your health. When some of you
die, if your friends put on your tombstone
truthful epitaph, it will read: Here lies thu
victim of late supLers," or it will be: "Be
hold what chicken salad at midnight will d.
for man;n or it will be: Ten cigars
day closed my earthly. existence;' OF l
will be: 'tSat down in cold draugh
and this is the result" or it viii
be: II died Of thin shoes last winter;" or
will be: 'Went out without an ovsrcoat an
took this last chilli" or it will be: Though
could do at 10 what did at 20 and an
quence of sitting a half day with wet feet;
or it will bs: "This is where have stacke'
my harvest of wild oats;;" or, instead
words the stone cutter will chisel for a
epitaph on the tombstone two figures, name
, ly, a dart and liver.
There is kind of sickness that is beautifu
when it comes from overWork for God, {
/ ones country, or ones own family. hav
seen wounds that were glorious. After Il
? battle of Antietam, in the hospital soldi'
J in reply to my question: "Wh here are yo
: hurtN uncovered his bosom and showed me
! cash that looked like badge of eternain
9 bility. have seen an empty sleeve that WI
$ more beautiful than the most muscular for
1 arm. ! have seen green shade over the 9!
u sEot out in battle that was more beautf
!: than any two eyes that had passed witho
d injury. have seen an old missionary Wo
k out with the malaria of African jungles wi
It looked to me more radiant than a ruhicul
n gymnast. / have seen a mother after s
Is weeks watching over family OF childr
l. down with scarlet fever with a glory roul
n her pale and wan face that surpassed the
n gelic. It all depends on how you got 20
{, sickness and in what battle your wounds.
MY Lord and my God! if we must get 81
y and worn out let it be in thy service, and
+ the effort to make the world good and hap{
y Not In the service Of sin. No! !
II One Of the most pathethic scenes I'll
70 I ever witnessed, and ] often see 1t,
l. that Of men or women converted in
= fifties or sixties or seventies wanting to
n useful, but they so served the world q
le Satan in the earlier part Of their life u
II they have no physical energy left for the
., vice Of God. They sacrificed nerves, muscl
l. lungs, heart and liver on the wrong. alt
y They fought on the wrong side, and nj
le when their sword is all hacked up 9
c. their ammunition all gone, they en-
,r for Emmanuel When their high N
f. tied cavalry horse, which they spur
ID into many cavalry charge W
n champing bit and flaming eye and NJ
he clothed with thunder, is worn out, and sp
m ined, and ring -boned, and, springhalt, ne RI